Device for cleaning yarn



(No Model.) H. F. WEST. V

DEVICE FOR GLEANING YARN, 68c.

Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT CrrrcE TIENRY F. TEST, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEV JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING YARN, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,324, dated October 2, 1888,

Application filed September 13, 1887. Serial No. 249,542. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F. WEsT, of Gloucester City, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and Improved Device for Cleaning Yarn, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and novel features of improvement in devices for cleaning yarn or other material, of the type, for instance, forming the subject-matter of an application for Letters Patent filed by me on the 4th day of May, 1887, and serially numbered 237,030.

My present invention consists of a device of light and simple construction for effectually cleaning fuzz or small particles from yarn or other similar material in its passage from the bobbin to the spool in a machine designated by those skilled in the art to which my invention is especially applicable as a spoolingmachine. My invention will be more particularly understood taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein I have shown the same in a form found practically efficient, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved cleaning device, showing one form of guide adjustable in the base-plate thereof. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is an end View. Fig. 4 is a view in perspec tive of a central section through the device, showing a modified form of knives, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of so much of a spoolingmachine as will serve to illustrate the application of my improved cleaning device thereto.

Referring to the drawings, A. is a metallic plate of suitable form, having a central rectangular opening, a, therein, through which fuzz or fine particles from the yarn or other material removed therefrom by means of knives, to be presently more fully described, are discharged away from contact with the material being cleaned.

B B are right-angular seats having formed in the lower portions thereof diagonal slots b and I). These seats form supports for holding the knives in proper position for the perfornr ance of their work, and are secured to the base-plate A by means of screws 0 and 0. These supporting'seatsBand B are preferably cast with two rectangulanshaped longitudinal bars, D and D, provided with a series of rightangular knives of light construction, d and d, with beveled-off cutting-edges. The series of knives cl and (1', cast, preferably, with the bars D and D, at an angle thereto, taper slightly from the inner surfaces of the bars to the cen ter of the device, and are so arranged that a series of knives, d, of the bar D will occupy a position between a series of knives, d, of the bar D, and are readily adjusted to adapt the device to the different sizes or kinds of material to be cleaned by simply moving the supporting-seats B and 13, held to place on the base-plate A, by means of the screws 0 and c, in the direction of the center. When the proper position of the knives has been secured for the performance of the particular work designed, the screws 0 and c are then turned into place again by an ordinary tool, thereby holding the seats B and B firmly onto the baseplate A, and the device is then in condition, withthe least amount of trouble and consumption of time, for the performance of its work of removing fuzz or small particles from yarn or other material in its passage from the bobbin to the spool of the machine, and, more over, without cutting the material during the cleaning operation.

9 and g are two inVerted-U-shaped guides with threaded arms, to which nuts and g are fitted. These threaded arms of the guides are then inserted through openings provided in the respective end extremities of the base plate A to receive them, after which nuts and g are fitted thereon and turned by hand until they rest snugly up against the under side of the base-plate A.

The special advantage of using an adjustable guide is that the entire cutting-surfaces of the respective knives can be utilized before there is any occasion for the removal of the knives for sharpening and grinding.

In Fig. 4 is shown another form of knives and guides, adjustable in thisinstance in depending arms cl and (1 formed integral with the two rectangular-shaped longitudinal bars D and D, and having oblong slots d", into which horizontal guides h, made of wire or other light material, are inserted. One extremity of these guides is crooked, while the other for a portion of its length is threaded, onto which is fitted a collar or nut, it. The

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guides are then inserted through the slotted arms (1", and held in a suitable position horizontally by means of nuts h turned thereon by hand until they rest snugly up against the outside surfaces of the depending arms d and (Z The series of knives d and 1%, cast with the longitudinal bars D and D in Fig. 4, are arranged, preferably, at acute angles to the hori zontal and vertical planes thereof, and have square cutting-edges. The particular advan tage to be derived from the use of this form of knives, arranged at a greater or less slant, is

that the fuzz or small particles that might at any time accumulate on the upper surfaces of the blades of the knives will be continually removed therefrom away from the material being cleaned, notwithstanding the light nature of the material removed.

In Fig. 5 is shown a sectional side elevation of so much of a spooling-machine as will serve to illustrate the manner of applying my improved cleaning device thereto.

I is a portion of one of the standards of the machine.

J is the bobbinholder.

J is a curved arm, having hinged thereto a light depending wire guide, j, of any suitable construction, and which supports the bobbin j and guides the yarn or other material from the bobbin and regulates the tension of the The bobbin-holder J and wire guide j are suitably hinged to a rightangular bracket, J, attached to a frame, j, running along the front of the machine.

is is a hook secured to the lower crossframc, "Z, of the machine,in which is mounted a shaft, carrying a rockerarm, 70, which is actuated by a heart-cam movement not shown, but fully understood. One extremity of the rocker-arm It is pivoted to a vertical connectingrod, Z, having a slight oscillatory movement, and this rod is pivoted at its upper extremity to a collar, Z, secured to a vertical rod, m, moving freely up and down through the horizontal arms of a bracket, a, suitably attached to the machine when motion has been communicated to the rocker-arm k in a well-understood manner.

The brackets n and n at the respective ends of the machine have secured thereto ahorizontal frame, a extending the width of the machine, and a frame, n is preferably secured at each end to the standards. In these frames at suitable distances apart are formed journal-bearings n for the reception of the spindles O. Mounted on each of these spindles is a grooved wheel, a actuated through a belt, a, passing around a frictional drum, P, suitably journaled to the machine, motion being imparted to this drum from a pulley on the main driving-shaft by means of a belt, 19. The pulley and shaft above alluded to have not been shown; still the actuation of the drum P thereby will be manifestly obvious to those skilled in the operation of such machines.

p is the spool mounted on the upper portion of the spindle 0.

To the upper extremities of the vertical rods m is attached a horizontal rod, q, to which is secured one or more curved brackets, R, with eyes 1", which enable the same to be easily fitte'd onto the horizontal rod q, and held in proper position thereon by means of tightenihg-screws 1". To each of these brackets is rigidly attached the base-plate A, on which are mounted the right-angular seats B and B, held to place thereon by means of the screws 0 and c, and preferably formed integral with these seats are the longitudinal bars D and D, each of which is provided with a series of angular knives, (Z and d.

To the horizontal rod q, or to the bracket R,

is attached a short vertical rod, S, having a slotted upper extremity, through which the yarn or other material is guided in its passage from the bobbin j through the cleaning device to the spool p.

The vertical connecting-rod Z, actuated by the rocker-arm k imparts an up-and-down movement to the horizontal rod q, thereby moving therewith the cleaning device and vertical guide S, and permitting of the automatic laying up of the thread or yarn evenly on the spool 12, when revolved by means of the belt a, passing around the grooved wheel a of the spindle 0 when the frictional drum 1? has had motion imparted to it from any convenient or suitable source.

The manner ofapplying my improved cleaning device to a spooling-machine of the type illustrated in the drawings having been described I will now explain briefly the operation thereof.

The yarn or other material to be cleaned is passed in an upward direction from the bobbinj, held in the holder J around the lower portion of the wire guidej, over the adjustable guides g and g in each end of the baseplate A, and between the series of knives of the cleaning device, thence through the slotted guide S and onto the spool 12, whereon it is evenly wound when the mechanism of the machine hereinbefore described has been actuated, the fuzz or other fine particles having been removed by the knives in the passage of the material through the middle of the device.

It is to be understood that the series of knives, preferably formed integral with the two rectangular-shaped longitudinal bars, while arranged for operation so that a series of knives of one bar will occupy a position between a series of knives of the opposite bar, must nevertheless not be so arranged or adjusted to the base-plate as to produce a friction between them and the material undergoing treatment, for the reason that the material in such event would be cut continually, thereby defeating the very object accomplished by my invention.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with two longitudinal bars each having knives arranged at an angle thereto, and depending arms having slots therein, and supportingseats and guides adjustable whereby the series of knives of said bar may in said depending arms, of a base-plate, and be adjusted to position for cleaning the mate means for securing said supporting-seats to rial in its passage between them, substantially 15 said plate, substantially as and for the puras described. 5 poses set forth. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 2. The combination, with two longitudinal signature in the presence of two subscribing bars each provided with a series of knives, witnesses. and with depending arms having slots formed therein, and with supporting-seats having di- HENRY WEST IO agonal slots therein, of guides, and means for Witnesses:

retaining said guides in adjusted positions, a GEO. W. REED, base-plate with an opening therein, and means THOMAS M. SMITH. 

